Recent content by Shamus Young

Experienced Points: Quality Still Matters Are we headed for another crash? Read Full Article

Loot Boxes Are Bad for Publishers, Too Judging by comments and social media interactions, everyone agrees that loot boxes are bad for gamers, but according to Shamus, they're even bad for the publishers pushing them. Read Full Article

Experienced Points: The Achilles' Heel of Steam Having a single supplier is bad, and so is having a single distributor. But worse than either of these nightmare scenarios is the one where you're at the mercy of a company that is neither a supplier nor a distributor. Read Full Article

Experienced Points: Microsoft's Chance in Japan After 17 years of Xbox, Microsoft still hasn't made a dent in the Japanese market. Shamus Young sees an opportunity to change that. Read Full Article

Experienced Points: No Man's Interface Shamus Young takes on No Man's Sky NEXT Read Full Article

On The Sketchy Woman Character I think the various "sidekick" trends in gaming are really interesting. Read Full Article

That's a pretty ill informed opinion, if you don't mind my saying so. I wasn't defending it as a platform. As an app platform, I think it's fine, as a AAA gaming platform, not so much, I said so in my post, however; The crux of your argument ('kill' something) - implies that games either...

There's a list of reasons in this article which are all somewhat inaccurate, I just want to address these; This seems to be a common argument and one that completely misunderstands the philosophy of the UWP / Microsoft Store. Microsoft have, or are still in the process, of developing app...

Microsoft's UWP is Games for Windows Live 2.0 After making such a mess of PC gaming with GWFL, Microsoft now wants to roll out a new platform that has even more power and control? Read Full Article

How YouTube Can Fix Itself Lack of fair use is just a symptom of the larger problem that Content ID is an unfair, confusing, stressful mess. Here's how YouTube could fix it. Read Full Article

WTF, YouTube? The recent #WTFU campaign hasn't resolved the problems with YouTube's content ID system. Read Full Article

Undertale and Curly Braces Some reader questions this week, including Undertale, textures, and coding. Read Full Article

Skinner Boxing Like any other aspect of game design, Skinner boxes are neither good nor bad. It's all about how the designer uses them within the overall game. Read Full Article

Why Make Games Random? What is the point of having a "Luck" factor in video games like Fallout 4 or The Binding of Isaac? Read Full Article

Rise of the Tomb Writer The problem with Rise of the Tomb Raider isn't that the story is too familiar, it's that we spend way too much time with it. Read Full Article